From: tgpedersen
Message: 28396
Date: 2003-12-12
> At 5:51:42 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:Yes, you are right.
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer
> > <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~nrwan/201hws.html
>
> >> The first generation of students at the school did not
> >> have a full language, but rather a pidgin consisting of
> >> home signs. The second generation of students, however,
> >> turned the pidgin into a creole. The original home signs
> >> and gestures used by the first generation had contained a
> >> great deal of pointing, actions, and repetition. NSL, on
> >> the other hand, is much more refined and complex. It
> >> contains ways to sign verbs in configuration, serial
> >> verbs with complex morphology, and first, second, and
> >> third person pronouns.
>
> > 1) I don't think that text is very clear on the subject of
> > pronouns. The occurrence of 'pronouns' in the last
> > sentence could be read as referring to the modified verbs
> > the previous reference describes (since the context seems
> > to be 'verbs').
>
> Only if you assume that the writer didn't know how to use
> commas correctly. If the pronouns were actually associated
> with the verbs, it would have to be
>
> serial verbs with complex morphology and first, second,
> and third person pronouns.
>
> As written the sentence says that NSL contains three things:
>
> * ways to sign verbs in configuration;
> * serial verbs with complex morphologh; and
> * first, second, and third person pronouns.
>